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- Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to…
- When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
- If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
- The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or…
- If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by…
- Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets…
- There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the…
- I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me,…
- How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody…
- All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never…
- Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but…
- In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at…
- I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it…
- I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I…
- It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different…
- Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up…
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